This is an analysis of the poem The Right Time To Accept that begins with:

I made that time the right time to accept.
Prepared I was for rejection and neglect....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaabcdea afcXgacb aX ea X agfdXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,2,2,1,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1111011001 01111010101 110010101001 1100110 11010101111 001101100101 110111 111001 1110111001 11110001001 10010110001 010111000 111010101 1111011001 1001101 1111101111 1100101 110101 1110111 011001 11110101 11101 10110001 110110101 11100101 0001101 01010011010001 01110111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i, time, if are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Right Time To Accept;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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